Engine Fooked!

Barsman said:

Year 2000 P38 4.6. 30th Anniversary model Pretty sure liner has slipped with one plug showing signs of water :-(

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Barsman said:

Sorry, just a little fed up! Considering a can of petrol and a match lol.
P38 Guy yes, is on LPG - BRC sequential with ecu.

The reason I asked was LPG seems to present it's own problems with the V8 engine no lubricant in the fuel i believe but stand to be corrected. Have been tempted with gas myself but for this very reason have stuck with petrol. Good luck with the problem you have

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P38guy said:

Barsman said:

Sorry, just a little fed up! Considering a can of petrol and a match lol.
P38 Guy yes, is on LPG - BRC sequential with ecu.

The reason I asked was LPG seems to present it's own problems with the V8 engine no lubricant in the fuel i believe but stand to be corrected. Have been tempted with gas myself but for this very reason have stuck with petrol. Good luck with the problem you have

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Fit a Flash-Lube system then...this lubes the top end when on Gas!

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P38guy said:

Barsman said:

Sorry, just a little fed up! Considering a can of petrol and a match lol.
P38 Guy yes, is on LPG - BRC sequential with ecu.

The reason I asked was LPG seems to present it's own problems with the V8 engine no lubricant in the fuel i believe but stand to be corrected. Have been tempted with gas myself but for this very reason have stuck with petrol. Good luck with the problem you have

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Not this old chestnut again. Don't forget that all of these engines are potentially crap - it's a complete lottery. Fitting lpg is often blamed for what would have happened anyway.

Mine's done more than 130k on lpg (almost 160k total) and has only just suffered head gasket failure. Pretty good going in my book. My old P6 3500S blew a HG after 60k miles and the engine back then had much more metal in it (and no lpg).

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kooky_guy said:

P38guy said:

Not this old chestnut again. Don't forget that all of these engines are potentially crap - it's a complete lottery. Fitting lpg is often blamed for what would have happened anyway.

Mine's done more than 130k on lpg (almost 160k total) and has only just suffered head gasket failure. Pretty good going in my book. My old P6 3500S blew a HG after 60k miles and the engine back then had much more metal in it (and no lpg).

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+1 usually fault with cooling system ,nobody checks rads cooling all over it etc

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hoarec said:

Mines now on 203,000 miles on LPG....I replaced the head gaskets last year, but I would suspect I would have had to anyway.......Have had a flash Lube kit fitted, but apparently no need as these size engines have hardend vave seats anyway or so I have been told.....

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kooky_guy said:

P38guy said:

Not this old chestnut again. Don't forget that all of these engines are potentially crap - it's a complete lottery. Fitting lpg is often blamed for what would have happened anyway.

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I agree, liners still slip in countries like the USA where LPG is almost non-existant as a car fuel. And they slip in TVRs where fitting LPG would ruin what little boot space you have already.

I don't believe LPG causes any problems at all on these engines, the bigger problem is that Rover enlarged it far bigger than it was ever designed to be, and that has has caused weaknesses that were never originally expected.

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